Alison Larabie Chase

Food/Restaurant Features Writer

Alison Larabie Chase is an Ottawa writer and editor who loves cooking, reading, cats, languages, music, and travel (not necessarily in that order). She has a journalism degree from Carleton, a passion-project food blog, a patient husband, two feline coworkers, and an undying love for the Oxford comma.

Photos by Alison Larabie Chase If you’re going to name your restaurant after a place you have to catch a tornado to get to, it’s on point to have a location that’s a little hard to find. Oz Kafe is now two for two on that count. It began humbly in a below-street-level space next [...]

Photos courtesy of Carben The plates were utterly gorgeous. Not just the food on them, but the plates themselves. Round with a high edge, almost like a very shallow bowl, each was unique, with colours ranging from brown-speckled white to deep green with shimmering black spots. As each arrived at [...]